The Oklahoma County Board of Commissioners has paid off a $660,000 breach-of-contract lawsuit for unpaid health care services incurred at the beleaguered county jail last year by dipping into the county retirement system, public records show.

People who work in Oklahoma’s prison system worry about understaffing and overpopulation. They discussed their concerns Thursday at an Oklahoma Board of Corrections meeting as they prepared to ask for larger state appropriations next year.

Officials from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma and its parent organization, the national ACLU, want more transparency in the state Department of Corrections. So they filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday seeking to stop Oklahoma prison officials from selectively filtering what a journalist can see during an execution.